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No...Putin's Largest Fish Was Caught In The White House

In mid-April, White House National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon delivered a still-secret letter from President Obama to President Putin during a meeting in Moscow. Putin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters that the correspondence “addresses problems of military policy, including the missile defense and nuclear arsenals issues.”

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces recently confirmed that the war plan is nearly complete and “is likely to recommend significant further U.S. nuclear force reductions”. He observed that “As the stockpile shrinks in size, we have reached the point where further reductions take on immense importance to the nation’s security.”

At the same time, a facility which is essential for modernization to extend the life of our aging ballistic nuclear warheads has now been delayed for at least five years, and some believe, permanently. On the other hand, Russia, which maintains the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, continues to modernize and upgrade theirs. This advancement is ocourring as Russia prepares to field its new generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles, including one type that can carry up to 15 warheads.

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) expressed alarm that nuclear arms reduction discussions with Russia are even on the table. Responding to Obama’s mention of the topic in a June 19 Berlin speech , he commented: “The president’s desire to negotiate a new round of arms control with the Russians, while Russia is cheating on a major existing nuclear control treaty, strains credulity.”

On top of all of this, in yet another olive branch offered to Russia to get a “New START” agreement started, the Obama administration proposes to deactivate one-third of the U.S. nuclear arsenal unilaterally, and without seeking congressional approval. Retired Air Force Lt. General Thomas McInerney characterized this action as “the most dangerous thing I have ever seen an American president attempt to do. This is not the time to embark on such a dangerous path, with China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea increasing their nuclear forces.”

Current head of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, four-star Adm. Cecil E.D. Haney, the nominee to become the next commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, told Senate members at his July 30 nomination hearing that he would oppose unilateral reduction. Adm. Haney emphasized that nuclear modernization is “even more critical” for the aging U.S. arsenal as New START reductions are carried out. He said: “It is so important that we have a secure and safe and effective nuclear deterrent, and that the industrial base supports that.”

So now we will all have to wait to find out what President Obama will propose to his new best pal Vladimir on arms control when they meet at the September G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg. The level of suspense is exhilirating, comparable no doubt to the excitement Nancy Pelosi expressed while waiting to find out what goodies were in the ObamaCare legislation grab bag the Democrat-controlled Senate passed without reading it.

In the meantime, you can bet that President Putin is plenty anxious too. After all, didn’t President Obama “restore America’s standing in the world”? During a 2009 CNN interview he said:“We’ve seen very specific areas of cooperation around the nuclear issue. At the time of my inauguration, the world community was still divided on what Iran’s intentions were…We mobilized the international community. You now have validators like the International Atomic Energy Agency, you’ve got the P-5 plus one, which includes Russia and China, all saying to Iran, you’re on the wrong side of history here.”

And if you like that whopper, you should hear the hilarious fish story Putin is laughing about.

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The US already outspends almost the rest of the world combined on defense. But apparently not enough to ensure complete global dominance. The US already spy’s on more people than the rest of the world combined. But apparently that doesn’t ensure a complete intelligence profile for the US intelligence community. Your government and media appear to have translated American into Newspeak. 1984 is alive and well and living in the USA. Kerry actual said that the Egyptian military coup was a movement towards democracy.

Of course the new Kremlin radar is in Kaliningrad on the Baltic not the Black Sea .. on land that used to be part of Germany .. but Larry .. this is an excellant summary of the despicable and astounding acts of Barack Obama .. acts that betray our loyal friends in Eastern Europe and cowardly accede to the wishes of dictators in the Kremlin who are not worthy of the respect of democratic peoples .. the Kremlin murders and imprisons it’s brave citizens who put there lives on the line but the most powerful man in the world betrays them .. I am ashamed .. the man who leads the nation which proclaimed freedom for all mankind in the Declaration of Independence is the friend of the dictators in the Kremlin who are afraid to let the Russian people have free elections and free media .. I am ashamed ..

Can you imagine a more obviously true statement than that of Romney’s about what was the greatest geo-political threat to the US ? When he named the Kremlin dictators Romney was poo pooed as an alarmist .. he was merely stating the obvious .. honestly .. something we apparently well never hear from Barack Obama .. that is what is so mind numbing and despicable .. while he says not a word of support for Navalry and Magnitsky and other heroes who have a hundred times more guts than Mr. Obama could imagine ..

I enjoy your cheeky exasperation, and generally share it – to the extent it has an element of ‘a pox on everyone’s house’. It seems so obvious that one problem with peace is that – if we were to achieve it – no one’s ego or wealth/power accumulation would be served. Given real human potential, and real human need (as well as earth degradation and restoration needs), geopolitical posturings are more than a little “off-task”, IMO.

Lol Armavir radar station isnt at Kaliningrad – it is in Krasnodar region (check “Armavir” on a google maps as a proof). And this station is building instead of Gabala radar statin wich was closed in this year. This article is nothing as a piece of crap.

It’s all ordinary and pragmatic actions are strictly not anti-American actions. Except for Snowden. :) I think Snowden is a fundamental exception. He is a Dissident and he is Human Rights Activist – in world scale, in global scale. He is not protected by personaly Putin – Putin’s opinion not soimportant in this issue. Snowden under protection of… and Russian Laws and International Laws. Putin talked so much about the “Dictatorship of the Laws”. And now he is NOT ABLE to break russian laws – becourse this is his program (or propaganda :)) point, this is his own “basic value”. Obama and other US politicians may violate their own laws – it’s their own deal. Putin can not. Alas poor Yorick…

ps As plus. Features Russia as Russian… of course is that Russia as state has balls. May be more then China or Europe.

Quite funny how country with largest military budget in the world, that is performing regular military ‘interventions’ all around the globe, is depicted as ‘naive’ and ‘olive branch wielding’ state in this article. For neutral observer, however, it would be obvious that Russian relations with the US are determined by actual behavior of the latter, not by empty words and would-be ‘friendship declarations’. After all “Lying. Congressional style” – is the name of a coursebook in one americal videogame. Think of it.